My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to…

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.

— Nicolas Cage

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting…

— Jonathan Coe

I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.

— Liam Hemsworth

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective…

— Epictetus

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

— Allan Bloom

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective…

— Epictetus

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

— Carole Bouquet

Both of my parents are teachers. One is in the Waldorf school system in Louisville, Ky., and the other runs a music school. I…

— Madi Diaz

I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town…

— Meghan Daum

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes…

— Walter Dean Myers

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in…

— Audre Lorde

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

— Bruno Bettelheim

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with…

— Nat Turner

“My eyes burned, and I blinked as I faced the books. "And I suppose," I said with an effort at lightness, "That it's a…

— Sarah J. Maas

I never learned to read music.

— Norman Spinrad